Pathos Delta
Microwave hybrid tissue processor
- Same-day processing for same-day diagnosis
- Improved work environment (no xylene)
- Reduced patient stress
- Highest standards of safety
Change the way you look at tissue processing
- Work area totally enclosed during operation
- Built-in charcoal/dust filter for stand-alone operation
- Resistance heated paraffin cavity, eliminates cleaning cycles
- Microwave processing cavity
- Customized reagents type and sequence
Open System
- No captive reagent commitments.
- Use of histology grade wax.
New. And with a lot of experience.
The Pathos Delta is the result of Milestone’s 13 years of know-how in applying microwaves to tissue processing. The Pathos Delta provides the ideal combination of automatic 
processing performance, reagents efficiency and environmental sensitivity, without sacrificing the morphology and quality histologists and pathologists expect.
Your histology know-how and Milestone microwave technology, allows you to reduce turn-around time. At the same time improve your workflow with less peaks and stress when compared to conventional methods.
- Throughput
- Fixative
- Clearing Agent
- Heating
No need to change your workflow. Just improve it!
Night Mode
At the end of the day collect all remaining specimens for overnight processing
Set Delay START
- Run any protocol, any tissue size, any thickness, any cassette number.
- Fix and process breast tissues to comply with HER-2 guidelines by CAP (College of American Pathologists).
At the start of the new working day the tissues are processed.
Day Mode
Rapid, on demand, microwave tissue processing
According to your workload process:
- Urgent biopsies
- All types of tissues, any cassettes number
- Any thickness of specimens, from 1 mm to 7 mm thickness
- Any cassettes up to supermega
- Xylene free or xylene processing
- Formalin or formalin-free processing
- Continuous access through elimination of cleaning cycles
Benefits for the patient care management team
- Grossing Room Operator
- Carry out grossing according to standard procedures
- No need to standardize on 1.5/2.5 mm thickness specimens
- Use formalin or FineFIX formaline-free fixative for enhanced molecular biology studies
- Histologist
- Improved workload distribution: process as required for a more even workload distribution
- Pathos will eliminate the need for night shifts
- Flexibility: process 20-70-140-210 cassettes as required
- Economy: process with three/four reagents only; conventional grade wax.
- Easy sectioning
- Pathologist
- Pathos processed slides enable the pathologist to deliver same-day diagnosis of slides
- Same-day diagnosis will enhance the pathologist’s role in cancer patient management
- Less stress through more even work load
- Lab Administrator
- Same-day diagnosis, even for afternoon specimens, for the referring physician and patient
- Improved service performance
- Improved work environment for laboratory personnel
- Reduce cost for reagents storage and disposal
- Oncologist & Clinician
- Within hours oncologists & clinicians can advise patients on the base of definitive diagnosis
- Treatment can be initiated immediately
- Hospital Administrator
- Reduced patient anxiety and stress by providing results within hours
- Dramatic improvements in efficiency and laboratory productivity
- Fast turn around to attract off site business
- Patient
- Elimination of needless anguish
- More timely start of needed treatment
